Jean Lemoine

Jean Lemoine, Jean Le Moine, Johannes Monachus^[1] (1250, Crécy-en-Ponthieu – 22 August 1313, Avignon) was a French canon lawyer, Cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate. He served Boniface VIII as representative to Philip IV of France, and founded the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine, in Paris. He is the first canon lawyer to formulate the legal principle of the presumption of innocence.

^ His Latin epitaph on his tomb in the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine in Paris reads: Hic iacet Dominus Iohannes Monachus Ambianensis Dioecesis Tituli Sanctorum Petri, et Marcellini Presbyt. Cardinalis: Jacobus Laderchii, De sacris basilicis SS. Martyrum Marcellini presbyteri, et Petri exorcistae de Urbi dissertation historica (Roma 1705), p. 352. "Le Moine" is a family name, not an indication that Jean was a monk: Jean Roy, Nouvelle histoire des cardinaux François V (1788), pp. 7-8.